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CASE OF M.H. AND OTHERS v. CROATIA (no. 15670/18)

Council of Europe (ECtHR)European Court of Human Rights2021
FavorableLow precedent
Strategic issue

What was at stake

Whether the applicants' rights to life, protection from torture, liberty, freedom from collective expulsion, and access to the Court were violated.

Key holding

What the court decided

The Court declared the remainder of the application inadmissible as manifestly ill‑founded, and found that Croatia violated the applicants' right to life (lack of effective investigation), the prohibition of torture (degrading treatment) for some applicants but not for others, the right to liberty (unlawful detention), the prohibition of collective expulsion of aliens, and the applicants' right to bring an individual application. The Court awarded the applicants non‑pecuniary damages.

Issue areas

Categories

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Source

Authoritative link

Source of record
https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng?i=002-13480
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